Haya is waiting to be reunited after sixty-two years with her son who was fathered by an S.S. officer and stolen by the German authorities during the war as part of Himmler’s “Lebensborn” project the aim of which was to help create a racially pure Reich. Haya has collected photographs, newspaper clippings, testimonies from the Nuremberg trials, witness accounts of the atrocities that happened in Trieste. This is her life – organising the documents that she has collected, endlessly organising her existence. I was totally poleaxed by this novel. It is beautifully written, unsentimental and uncompromising in the way that it deals with the different characters. It is not comfortable reading; it is a work of fiction but set out in a way that adds to a feel of its authenticity. I know I will be re-reading this novel.